Start Date(s)

• 1857 (Finkelstein)
• 1858 (Stewart)

End Date(s)

• 1909 (Finkelstein)
• 1908 (Stewart)

Editor(s)

• Hunter, David

City

• Edinburgh, Scotland (Bigmore and Wyman)
• Glasgow, Scotland (Shattock)

Circulation Count

• 1,000 (in 1857), 1,025 (in 1858), 1,066 (in 1859) (Couper)

Type of Content

• Scottish contributors: Alexander Smart, James Smith, Robert Brough (Finkelstein p. 124)

Notes

• "Letterpress printers' trade journal" (Mitchell's 1895, p. 232)
• Printed on blue letter paper (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 189)
• "In September of the same year [1858] the Circular was adopted a the official organ of the Edinburgh Typographical Society" (Couper p. 10)
• “It started with ‘the avowed purpose of advocating all measures legitimately tending to the benefit of the Scottish journeyman printer,’ and embraced trade union principles” (Couper p. 10)
• “The Scottish Typographical Circular cannot be overlooked in the interests of this 'Bibliography.' It contains many incidental references to changes in and additions to the periodical press. Ostensibly the trade organ of the operative printers, it has a wider value because of some general articles” (Couper p. 10)
• Finkelstein (pp. 111-24) has a chapter on this journal; it has similar commitments (as The [London] Typographical Circular) to print trade concerns
• Leading Article: "Devoted to 'the legitimate benefit of the working printer in Scotland, by the dissemination of printing intelligence, and the consideration of the various measures likely to affect his position or worse’" (Finkelstein pp. 112-13)
• Publisher's address (Kay): 5 Bank St., Edinburgh (Bookseller 1890, p. 1227)
• Publisher's address (Schenck & M'Farlane): 14 & 19 St. James' Square, Edinburgh (Couper p. 10)
• Publisher's address (Gray): 8 Melbourne Place, Edinburgh (Couper p. 10)
• Publisher's address (Edinburgh Typographical Society): 98 High Street, Edinburgh (BTL19 Database; Mitchell's 1895, p. 232)
• Publisher's address (R. Smith): Dumbiedykes Rd., Edinburgh (Caspar's p. 1287)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 75, p. 118
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 189
• COPAC
• Caspar's Directory p. 1287
• Couper 1903, p. 10
• Finkelstein pp. 111-24
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 232
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 51
• St. Bride (online)
• Stewart vol. 4, p. 61
• Ulrich and Kup pp. 198-99
• Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• Caspar's Directory of the American Book, edited by Carl Nicolaus Caspar. C. N. Caspar, 1889. Google Books.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Couper, William James. "A Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical Literature." Scottish Notes and Queries, series 2, vol. 5, no. 1, July 1899-June 1907. Google Books.
• Finkelstein, David. Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World. Oxford UP, 2018.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• St. Bride Foundation Catalogue, St. Bride Library, 2022.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.